Several years back I wrote a piece for the SWT School Paper. I suggested there was a need for a cheap simple slimmed down laptop for use by students.  Word processing, internet, simple spreadsheet would do the trick.  Now comes the Asus Eee PC. Read the review at Camera Labs Report.  This Taiwan company uses…

George Will describes the phenomenon that is MCD.  Most of what we study in Managerial Accounting is on display in MCD every day.  The design of the counter to minimize waiting, the design behind the counters to enable the food to be bagged quickly, the 90 second wait between the order at the drive in…

Yet another pointy head has offered yet another bad idea cloaked in good intentions-check out Let’s Close the Gap in Education. . One of our core ideas at UNT Dallas is to value critical thinking.  Well here is a great chance to exercise some critical thinking, read the article and here we go. The author…

Robert Samuelson discusses the rise of mercantilism. This 19th Century promoted the idea of ‘put us first’ to build import income. This also led to tariffs to make sure work was done in our country not in their country.  Example-if you have been to Cancun you probably rode in either a VW or Nissan taxi,…

The Heritage Foundation has complied a list of Congressional Pork Projects.  No matter where you live you paid for them.  View the list here. Pork is a synonym for bringing home the bacon, getting Federal Money to finance local projects, which Congress uses to get re elected. Is this what Jefferson had in mind?

We study managerial accounting to learn about better decision making.  Here Jerry Flint contrasts good and bad decisions. Making a new whatever in  a new plant with new people = problems. Which is what has happened to Nissan in MS and Toyota in San Antonio.  Trying to sell different makes of cars under the same…

Well here we go again. As gasoline is now $3, Jerry Flint actually drove a Smart Car.  And he actually got 47 mpg.  Finally a report I can believe. For most of what I do here in the Best SW City area, a SMART would make sense.  I drive to school, and sometimes to the…

At left, Jimmie Smith, President of the Dallas Managerial Accounting Society presnets yours truly Dennis Elam, Asst Prof Accounting UNT Dallas Campus, a $250 check from .  The group voluntarily made the donation regarding the effort to lend CPE authority for the IMA meetings. UNT Dallas Campus will be emphasizing careers in Managerial Accounting. The…

Gee lots of news on the ethics front today.  Upset and distraught about your or your significant other’s wayward ways.  Well,  Cheatneutral to the rescue!  This article describes and provides a link to the site.  Now you can purchase an offset to your own cheating.  See, just like a ‘carbon neutral footrpint rendered maenignless by…

I  made several posts about Michael Vick and other athletes this past semester. Now we have the (alleged) actual letter Michael Vick wrote to his Judge regarding his sentence.  Rather than comment here myself, I hope that you will read his letter and  coment on the blog. By the way, do you have an opinion…